Purging Unified Auditing Tables Wont Free Space On Database (dba_segments Looks The Same As Before Purge) when LAST_ARCHIVE_TIMESTAMP was not set. (Doc ID 2806764.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

Space is not recovering after cleaning the audit data using below:

 BEGIN
 DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.CLEAN_AUDIT_TRAIL(
 AUDIT_TRAIL_TYPE => DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.AUDIT_TRAIL_ALL,
 USE_LAST_ARCH_TIMESTAMP => TRUE,
 DATABASE_ID => xxxxxx);
 END;

Cause

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